Dizzy
Subtitle: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: March 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780060559212
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Jazz; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Biography And Autobiography; Black Musicians And Their Music; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Biography & Autobiography / General; Composers & Musicians - General; People of Color; 1917-1993; Gillespie, Dizzy,
First sentence: John Birks "DIZZY" GILLESPIE ALMOST VOMITED FROM exhaustion as he picked cotton for the first time outside his hometown of Cheraw, South Carolina, in the summer of 1928.